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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire department had ordered installation of automatic sprinklers in the studio which Pathe officials resisted on the claim that no more than five inflammable film reels (the legal limit) were stored there. In the fire ruins Police Commissioner Whalen dramatically counted out 150 blistered cans of film reels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Pathetique | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Universal Air Lines, he sent out the first of 140,000 letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions safer, establish a standard wage; protect airmen from unjustifiable discharge, limit the hours of labor, promote the general well being of aircraft workers. Stirring them to this effort is their belief that airlines are thinking of cutting the pay of all classes of employes except officials. Both unionizers are friends of Col. Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Unionization? | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...same primary onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper spent $1,804,979, onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, $187,029, vainly seeking the senatorial nomination. The Senate set a moral limit for campaign expenditures in 1922 when it seated Truman Hanly Newberry of Michigan, condemned his political use of $196,000 as excessive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senator-Reject | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Chief Redington's administration has been widely assailed by U. S. sport journals for opposing the reduction of the bag limit. In October, Outdoor Life said: "We place the blame for the situation squarely where it belongs-on Paul G. Redington . . . who in failing to recommend a reduction has . . . laid himself open to the serious charge that he is under the influence of a clique of influential duck hogs who do their shooting in states where ducks concentrate, and . . . want the highest possible bag limit. . . .* We condemned the survey's widely publicized duck census because . . . Redington was using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Game Gossip | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Ford who is vice president of the Technical Advisory Corporation will undertake the investigation of the subject "What Zoning Has Done to Limit the Height of Bulk Buildings Especially in Commercial and Apartment Districts, and What Further Limits Should Be Placed on Building Height and Form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CITY PLANNING SCHOOL TO BEGIN ACTIVITIES | 12/12/1929 | See Source »

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